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By Brian Posted on March 1, 2021March 1, 2021

Monday Morning Musing: What is the meaning of this?

Somewhere on the road to nowhere

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Categories: LifeTags: adulting, mental health, midlife crisis, Monday Musings
By Brian Posted on February 24, 2021February 24, 2021

New Year Goals

A post in which I reveal goals to motivate me and keep me sane in the new year.

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Categories: Health, Life, Photography, ReviewsTags: books, fitness, New Year Goals, noom, Photography, reading
By Brian Posted on October 8, 2020October 12, 2020

Try, Try Again

WARNING: This is a post in which I overshare my years of ups-and-downs with weight gain and loss, stress and a few other emotions.

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Categories: Food and Drink, Health, LifeTags: depression, dieting, health, mental health, overeating, running, stress
By Brian Posted on August 10, 2020August 14, 2020

Funny story

I just read a post on Facebook by a former colleague who shared his grandmother who he felt a close kinship with passed away on Sunday. He’s quite a bit … Continue reading Funny story

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Categories: LifeTags: daily gratitude, Family, Photography
By Brian Posted on August 5, 2020

Where do you find peace?

I love my porch.

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Categories: LifeTags: Gratitude, Photography
By Brian Posted on August 5, 2020August 5, 2020

How are you?

Living that Rona life.

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Categories: LifeTags: Musings
By Brian Posted on March 26, 2020August 5, 2020

Opening Day Coronavirus Blues

Finding hope in trying times

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Categories: LifeTags: Cincincinnati, Cincinnati Reds, Coronavirus, Findlay Market, Findlay Market Opening Day parade, Holy Grail, Opening Day, Reds Opening Day, Virtual Opening Day
By Brian Posted on January 31, 2020January 31, 2020

Confessions of a Data Nerd

Data is cool

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Categories: LifeTags: data, data visualization, Google Trends, Skyline Chili Dip, Super Bowl LIV, Superb Owl, visual data
By Brian Posted on June 10, 2019June 12, 2019

June 10, 2019: Return of the Grat(itude)

“I don’t know where I’m going, but I’m on my way.” ― Carl Sandburg

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Categories: Gratitude, LifeTags: Akron, Breweries, Canton, chasing sunsets, Dayton, Eagle Up 24 Hour Ultra, Fiance, fifty west, Jean-Robert Cavel, legos, Ohio, Thirsty Dog, tornado
By Brian Posted on May 20, 2019June 10, 2019

May 20, 2019: Gratitude in Action

Leaping mole hills before they become mountains in a single bound

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Categories: Gratitude, LifeTags: ADHD, Against the Wind, daily gratitude, Family, fiancée, friends, goals, Grateful, Gratitude, Gratitude list, hyperfocus, niece, old friends, summer, weather, WooBox, Work
By Brian Posted on May 15, 2019May 20, 2019

May 15, 2019: Gratitude Just Below the Surface

“To dance is to be out of yourself. Larger, more beautiful, more powerful… This is power, it is glory on earth and it is yours for the taking” ~ Agnes De Mille

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Categories: Gratitude, LifeTags: Against the Wind, daily gratitude, Gratitude, Gratitude list, storytelling
By Brian Posted on April 23, 2019April 24, 2019

Running by Numbers

A visual breakdown of the GPS running data I saved to my Garmin Connects in 2018.

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Categories: Life, RunningTags: Against the Wind, storytelling, tableau, visual data

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